Unforgettable
On the occasion of Pesaro Urbino 2024, the proposal of the "Unforgettable" pavilion was selected for FE.M., Festival di Micro Architettura. The place where the pavilion was built is one of the most evocative in Marche region, as it is the meeting point of two small rivers, the Meta and the Auro that become at that confluence point, the Metauro, a river that flows in one of the longest and most characteristic valleys of the region.
The pavilion had to respond not only to the place, but also to a theme entrusted to it, expressed by the title "At the end of time, on the traces of forgetfulness" which suggested a deep thought about what remains and how to make sure that this trace remains authentic.
To avoid forgetting, you can remember and pass on the stories over time, but do it in their smallest details is very difficult. In that passing on, you lose or alter the contents. Then you can learn things by heart, like poems at school. But if the first attitude remains unstable and easily modifiable in time and space, because we lose the details, in the second way the story remains rigid without interpretation. Then the best way to avoid forgetting, is not the story but the experience. "It was an unforgettable experience!" he hears. It is here that the Architecture, however ephemeral, has its role because it is experienced. And only the experience remains imprinted in detail, like a poem, but rich in narration in time and space as a story. The pavilion is a device that amplifies feelings and frames the elements of the surrounding landscape. It is composed of a long curved corridor and a tiny room, all wrapped by a white cloth. This wad of fabric muffles the sound of the river and we find ourselves, across a threshold, in another place where the water flowing seems far away. The curve makes us lose our orientation, and after 10 steps we find ourselves in front of a small window in which is framed precisely the point of union of the two rivers, the confluence. On the left, the corridor widens and becomes a space, it welcomes a bench in which to lie down and faces the sky and the crowns of the trees. This bench, very close to the river, becomes like a sound box in which resting your head returns the thundering flow, of water and symbolically of time.
